Antiochus of Palestine

As they were, naturally, unable to carry many books with them, the Abbot Eustathius asked his friend Antiochus to compile an abridgment of Holy Scripture for their use, and also a short account of the martyrdom of the forty-four monks of St. Sabbas.

In compliance with this request he wrote a work known as the Pandects of Holy Scripture (in 130 chapters, mistaken by the Latin translator for as many homilies).

He also wrote an Exomologesis or prayer, in which he relates the miseries that had befallen Jerusalem since the Persian invasion, and begs the divine mercy to heal the Holy City's many ills.

The book is of special value for its extracts of works no longer existing; the writer had an interest, then uncommon, in early Christian literature.

[1] It has been conjectured that Antiochus was the same person as the Sabaite monk Strategius, who wrote an account of the Sasanian conquest of Jerusalem.